Learning from Cities— The 2nd Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation
192 of information technology and the
workflow, and soon will drive significant
information system in government
reforms of government management
organizations have provided strong
and operation models, thus improving
impetus and technological support for
the government efficiency and then
“recreation of government” movement
further facilitates social and economic
which increasingly rises throughout
development widely.
the world and ignites people’s infinite
In the practical operation of COR, the
imagination of the future “virtual
strong information technology supports
government”. People believe that
from the technology company plays an
the broad application of information
extremely important role. Cooperators
technology will exert deep influence
such as IBM, Billfinger, Cisco, Samsung
on the idea of governance, function
and Google provide their expertise and
of government, structure of powers,
technology to help COR obtain, share
organization structuring, management
and deliver information in a faster
model, operation mechanism and
way. In particular, the establishment of geographical coordinate data system which is related to the needed properties in Rio’s daily operation, better helps Rio government to deal with emergencies in the city. In the operation of the geographic coordinate system data, Oi and TIM (telecom companies), which are responsible for implementing the links of data transmission, play a crucial role. In addition, in order to improve the traffic of Rio de Janeiro, the City Hall installed a large number of new surveillance cameras, intelligent traffic lights, electronic and transport meters within the city. In information technology, the Rio government targets to build a new data center and implement structural systems in 2016.
□ Façade of COR
COR is also very advanced with